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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1944
Page
6
Historians may note a lab and field battle where bulk food for troops was slashed by dehydration and compression. Vegetable bricks, dried fruit juice, milk powder, eggs and cheese reduced shipment weight and space, enabling faster, safer supply to distant posts while preserving flavor and nutrients.
The piece portrays Hiram Johnson and Sam Parsons passing time with candid humor about neighbors. It mentions Mrs Schifflebein’s illness and the birth of twins, and notes Jake Krueger’s decline in vigor, all wrapped in a dry humorous tone typical of small town chatter.
Gossip column notes about beauty tips and tricks including matching lips and fingertips, separating lashes with a toothpick, boiling water for shampooing, vinegar rinses darkening light hair, lemon juice rinses, and tremon rinses.
Teens autograph a range of items from blinds and banners to bed linens and towels in a playful study of autographing habits. The piece suggests creative uses for signatures on adornments and personal items, including clothing and stuffed toys, with light humor about color-fast thread.
A Philadelphia trolley car crash scattered broken glass and milk bottles across the street. Passenger Mrs. Jennie Klasky left the car, swept up the glass, and returned, and traffic resumed.
A playful roar notes a dance trend shift from Lindy and boogie to three-quarter time waltz revival. Girls emulate Scarlett O Hara while boys seek the next waltz as the Cats and Gaits embrace elegant swoop and glide, ditching noisy dances for refined rhythm.
A sequence of humorous exchanges about coffee tasted like mud, a bugler who blew up the camp, K P meaning Keep Peeling, and chatter about sailors yields lighthearted trench humor from a military setting. The dialogue features a girl reacting to soldiers and a K P joke.
Patchwork returns as a stylish reuse of scraps to create chair seats and even whole chairs. Appliques of cut-out flowers on plain materials enhance seat coverings, especially with plain home spun and chintz. Dressmakers offer short lengths of fine materials at low prices to brighten rooms. The work is exacting but achievable.
Fifth Army beachhead in Italy sees wind reversal as enemy propaganda leaflets are blown back across no man’s land. Allied troops joke that no pinups will appear this time as the leaflets drift toward their lines.
Ernie Pyle joins a Ninth Air Force B 26 Marauder squadron at an England air base. He describes the tight team spirit led by Col. Wilson R. Wood and the squadron’s rapid attacks on German fighters, railyards, and military installations as they prepare for invasion flights.
In a vivid cockpit recollection the narrator describes returning to base, landing in a big plane at over 100 miles per hour, and exiting after Chief filed reports. Red Dog stayed in the nose during landing while the narrator rode up front and exited first after the hatch in the floor opened.
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